A Billiard Lesson

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METADATA

Metadata

A Billiard Lesson

Poet(s)

Clarke, Henry Savile

Unsigned

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The English Illustrated Magazine 6:69, 669, June 1889.

First line

’Twas pleasant on the winter nights

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the prose contribution The History of Billiards by H. Savile Clarke (666-72) (AHC). Poet attribution: W. Davenport Adams, Songs of Society (London: Pickering and Co., 1880), pp. 146-47, where the poem is attributed to Henry Savile Clark. Note that Clarke provides this source in this prose contribution, in which he anonymizes the authorship of the poem. (BGL)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 19345

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

A Billiard Lesson